Welcome to the jungle: Unamusement Park explores the Congo (part 1)

It’s a question we’ve all asked ourselves, four or five hundred times. Today, Unamusement Park sets out into the jungle in search of answers.

And maybe some blood diamonds, too.

Welcome to the jungle...

Warning: This series, like all ‘Park content, is extremely “racist,” meaning we find out facts about non-white people — in this case, the Congolese — then draw sensible conclusions from those facts, without (and this is key) assuming that non-white people are perfect and wonderful in every single way, and all their problems — I mean, struggles — are caused by white people, who can’t dance, play sports, act cool, meet women, control their subconscious white-supremacist psychosis, or indeed get anything right at all without the patient tutoring, moral support, and strict supervision of their omnibenevolent minority overlords: the Wise Latinas, the Magical Negroes, and a whole gang of other Colorful characters. So watch out for that. (The “racism,” I mean, not the run-on sentences.)

The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), formerly Zaire, not to be confused with the neighboring Republic of the Congo, which is also a shitty place to live.

So what’s (the Democratic Republic of) the Congo like, anyway? In a word: horrible. Just horrible. Here is a small sampling of the horribleness to be found in the poorest country on Earth.

Crocodiles on a plane

The Congo has seen more fatal plane crashes than any other African country since 1945 (AP, 2008). As a result, all Congo-based airlines are banned from European Union airspace. According to EU spokesman Michele Cercone, “there is a general lack of effective control by the civil aviation authorities there to monitor and maintain minimum technical standards” for planes.

That “general lack of effective control… to monitor and maintain minimum technical standards” refers to, among other things, a 2010 crash that killed 20 people, caused by a loose crocodile on board (MSNBC, 2010). And just last month, 127 passengers and crew were killed when the pilots of a Boeing 727 missed the runway at Kisangani during a thunderstorm (BBC, 2011) — or was it 90? Or 82? Or maybe 75? The Congo Transport Ministry couldn’t make up its mind. Part of the problem was that “airlines in the African country do not always keep a complete passenger list” (NYC Aviation, 2011).

Of course they don’t.

The same airline, Hewa Bora Airways, lost a DC-9 on takeoff from Goma in April 2008, killing 40, most of them on the ground; and a smaller plane in September of that year, killing 17. So why do the Congolese still fly Hewa Bora Airways? Because they can’t drive anywhere (AP, 2011):

Few passable roads traverse the country after decades of war and corrupt rule, forcing the country’s deeply impoverished people to rely on ill-maintained planes and boats to move around.

Kinshasa is the sort of place where the police have to act quickly to arrest “13 suspected sorcerers accused of using black magic to steal or shrink men’s penises, after a wave of panic and attempted lynchings triggered by the alleged witchcraft” (Reuters, 2008).

Rumours of penis theft began circulating last week in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo’s sprawling capital of some 8 million inhabitants. They quickly dominated radio call-in shows, with listeners advised to beware of fellow passengers in communal taxis wearing gold rings.

Things we learned today at Unamusement Park: never enter a communal taxi in Kinshasa with a man wearing gold rings. He is probably a sorcerer who will shrink your penis with black magic. No, really:

“It’s real. Just yesterday here, there was a man who was a victim. We saw. What was left was tiny,” said 29-year-old Alain Kalala, who sells phone credits near a Kinshasa police station.

Well, that settles it.

The Congolese reaction is understandable, really. After all, this is the 7th century AD, and we should expect the threat of magical genital-thievery to provoke a — what’s that? It’s not the 7th century? It’s the 21st? Oh. I guess the Congolese are just a bunch of goddamn savages then. (More on that later.)

Poor Pygmies

In 2009, Congolese government troops sodomized male Pygmies “to gain supernatural powers and protection in Kisa village in Walikale territory,” according to a regional rights group (Agence France-Presse, 2009).

The village chief was stripped and [sodomized] in the presence of his wife, his children and daughter in-law.

The children in turn were stripped and raped in front of their father.

Rape: a national pastime

The Congo has been called “the worst place on earth to be a woman,” and for good reason (AP, 2011): every day, 1,152 women are raped — that’s 48 per hour. Clearly they are in desperate need of a SlutWalk.

Congo, a nation of 70 million people that is equal in size to Western Europe, has been plagued by decades of war. Its vast forests are rife with militias that have systematically used rape to destroy communities.

The analysis, which will be published in the American Journal of Public Health in June, shows that more than 400,000 women had been raped in Congo during a 12-month period between 2006 and 2007.

That’s right: the Congolese use rape as a weapon of war, because it so efficiently destroys the fabric of society. This is confirmed by Melanne Verveer, the State Department’s ambassador-at-large for global women’s issues (AP, 2009).

Hundreds of thousands of women, girls and babies have been raped during 12 years of conflict in eastern Congo, victims of a weapon of war that almost always goes unpunished, senators were told Wednesday.

“Rape is employed as a weapon because it is effective,” Verveer said. “It destroys the fabric of society from within and does so more efficiently than do guns or bombs.”

“In addition to these rapes and gang rapes, of which there have been hundreds of thousands over the duration of the conflict, the perpetrators frequently mutilate the woman in the course of the attack,” she said. “The apparent purpose is to leave a lasting and inerasable signal to others that the woman has been violated.”

To make matters worse, she said, she quoted a report by the Human Rights Integrated Office in Congo that spoke of “a marked lack of seriousness” by law officers and magistrates toward raped females. … Verveer said that of the 14,000 rape cases registered in the Congo’s provincial health centers in between 2005 and 2007, only 287 were taken to trial.

There was no fighting and no deaths, he [Will F. Cragin of the International Medical Corps] said, just “lots of pillaging and the systematic raping of women” by between 200 and 400 rebels.

Four young boys also were raped, said Dr. Kasimbo Charles Kacha, the district medical chief.

“Many women said they were raped in their homes in front of their children and husbands,” Cragin said. Others were dragged into the nearby forest.

He said that by the time they got help it was too late to administer medication against AIDS and contraception to all but three of the survivors.

Yes, it seems the recent Congolese rape epidemic didn’t exactly help with the ongoing Congolese AIDS epidemic (The Independent, 2004).

More than 40,000 women and girls were raped by soldiers and used as sex slaves in the six-year civil war in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and desperately need medical care, according to a report released yesterday.

Presumably the 400,000 raped between 2006 and 2007 need it just as desperately.

Floriane, 21, was abducted from the forest and held in captivity by a militia from 2001 to 2004. “It was terrible. They used to beat me on my arms with an iron bar, just like an animal. I can’t move my arm now. As we were considered sex slaves, sometimes as many as five soldiers would rape me, and I became pregnant. It was a very difficult birth, because I gave birth in the bush. The soldiers wouldn’t let me go and the very day I gave birth, several soldiers raped me,” she told Amnesty.

There are only two hospitals that can treat rape victims in the eastern Congo, where most of the fighting has taken place. Most of the treatment for rape victims has been provided by humanitarian aid agencies rather than the government, and even the agencies warn that they are not able to reach all the people who need help. Médecins Sans Frontières estimates that in some regions, it is helping only 5 per cent of women who have been sexually abused. In many cases, women were raped as they walked to medical centres to seek treatment.

Health groups warn that the rapes have caused a massive increase in the rate of HIV/Aids infection. More than 20 per cent of the population in eastern Congo is estimated to be infected, and more than half of the population could catch the virus within the next 10 years, making the rate of infection one of the highest in the world. As militias and soldiers from neighbouring countries move back home, they will spread the infection.

That’s all pretty darn bad. Can we do worse?

Of course we can! This is, after all, the Congo.

“Warning,” begins a 2006 MSNBC Newsweek report on the war in eastern Congo, “do not read this story if you are easily disturbed by graphic information, or are under age, or are easily upset by accounts of gruesome sexual violence” (Newsweek 2006). The report’s subtitle is “The atrocity reports from eastern Congo were so hellish that Western medical experts refused to believe them — at first.” Wheeeeeee

“Fistulas,” we discover,

are a kind of damage that is seldom seen in the developed world. Many obstetricians have encountered the condition only in their medical texts, as a rare complication associated with difficult or abnormal childbirths: a rupture of the walls that separate the vagina and bladder or rectum. … In eastern Congo, however, the problem is practically an epidemic. When a truce was declared in the war there in 2003, so many cases began showing up that Western medical experts at first called it impossible — especially when local doctors declared that most of the fistulas they were seeing were the consequence of rapes.

Aren’t you glad we’re exploring the Congo?

It had been no secret that nearly all sides in the Congo’s complex civil war resorted to systematic rape among civilian populations, and estimates were as high as a quarter million victims of sexual assault during the four-year-long conflict. But once fighting died down, victims began coming out of the jungles and forests and their condition was worse than anyone had imagined. Thousands of women had been raped so brutally that they had fistulas. They wandered into hospitals soaked in their own urine and feces, rendered incontinent by their injuries.

I know what you’re thinking: just how violent would a rape have to be, Unamused, in order to cause a fistula?

Ordinary rapes, even violent ones, do not usually cause fistulas, although it’s not medically impossible. Doctors in eastern Congo say they have seen cases that resulted from gang rapes where large numbers of militiamen repeatedly forced themselves on the victim. But more often the damage is caused by the deliberate introduction of objects into the victim’s vagina when the rape itself is over. The objects might be sticks or pipes. Or gun barrels. In many cases the attackers shoot the victim in the vagina at point-blank range after they have finished raping her. “Often they’ll do this carefully to make sure the woman does not die,” says Dr. Denis Mukwege, medical director of Panzi Hospital. “The perpetrators are trying to make the damage as bad as they can, to use it as a kind of weapon of war, a kind of terrorism.” Instead of just killing the woman, she goes back to her village permanently and obviously marked. “I think it’s a strategy put in place by these groups to disrupt society, to make husbands flee, to terrorize.”

Now you know!

A few choice quotes from the remainder of the article:

“All the armed men rape,” says Doctor Mukwege. “When we see a lesion, we can tell who the perpetrator is; there are special methods of each group, types of injuries. The Interahamwe after the rape will introduce objects; a group in Kombo sets fire to the women’s buttocks afterwards, or makes them sit on the coals of a fire. There’s another group that specializes in raping 11-, 12-, 13-, 14-year-old girls, one that gets them pregnant and aborts them.” The youngest victim of fistula from rape his hospital has seen was 12 months old; the oldest, 71.

Last April, [Doctor Mukwege] says, a 5-year-old girl was brought to him. Her tormentors had raped her and then fired a pistol into her vagina. She was operated on twice at Panzi Hospital without success before being sent to a hospital in the United States where surgeons tried twice more to repair the damage. They failed, too. She’ll spend the rest of her life with a colostomy bag.

Late one evening a group of Interhamwe gunmen raided her [20-year-old Bahati’s] village in South Kivu, killed 10 of the men, and abducted 10 women and girls. She says she and the other captives were kept chained except when they were unbound to be gang-raped. She became pregnant after five months, and her captors gave her a crude abortion by shoving something into her — she says she doesn’t know what they used. Her doctors say the abortion probably caused the fistula.

Benga, 16, and Masoro, 17… were kept tied to trees except when they were doing domestic chores or being raped. [Keep that in mind for later.] Their mothers were raped in front of the girls. Benga bursts into tears recalling the experience. “Their purpose is simply to ruin people, to rape people,” she says. “I don’t know why.”

Yeah, why is that?

No one can say why. The answer is almost too awful to consider, and impossible to understand.

We are awful enough ourselves to consider it, later in this series.

Ten years of total war

In 2008, the International Rescue Committee released a report on the effects of last ten years of war in the Congo (CBC News, 2008).

An estimated 5.4 million people were killed by conflict and its fallout in Congo from 1998 until April 2007, says a report released Tuesday by the International Rescue Committee.

Most of the deaths were due to the humanitarian crisis caused by the war, which badly eroded health-care services and caused famine, says the report by the internationally recognized non-governmental aid organization. The report found that outbreaks of easily treated diseases such as malaria, diarrhea, pneumonia, malnutrition, measles and whooping cough have been major killers in Congo, especially among children.

Nearly half of the fatalities were among children under the age of five, even though they make up only 19 per cent of the total population.

The report was released the same day UNICEF’s State of the World’s Children report was released, naming Sub-Saharan Africa as the region with the highest child mortality rates in the world.

The International Rescue Committee study found that roughly 45,000 Congolese continue to die each month, even though a peace accord formally ended the war in 2002. …

“The conflict and its aftermath, in terms of fatalities, surpass any other since World War II,” said the aid group’s president, George Rupp.

If all these horror stories from the Congo have got you worried that the Congolese will soon be extinct, snuffed out by civil war, famine, disease, and loose crocodiles on airplanes — well, if you feel that way, you’re on the wrong website, pal, but have no fear: as of 2011, the Congo has the 11th highest birth rate in the world, and taking into account its death rate (the 34th highest), the country’s population growth rate is the world’s 14th highest, at 2.835 percent (CIA).

If, on the other hand, the Congo’s birth rate has got you worried that the Congolese will soon be swarming out of Africa and into our nice, white nations, bringing their unique brand of black dysfunction — civil war, famine, disease, airborne crocodiles, etc. — to Europe and America, then you should have plenty of fear.

If, on the other hand, the Congo’s birth rate has got you worried that the Congolese will soon be swarming out of Africa and into our nice, white nations, bringing their unique brand of black dysfunction — civil war, famine, disease, airborne crocodiles, etc. — to Europe and America, then you should have plenty of fear. (Lots more on that later.)

Great post, just a minor nitpick: In a country where in reality nobody has even the slightest idea how many people live there (last census was done 1984 with typical African accuracy), there is absolutely no way to make an estimation of the incidence of rape that is even remotely informed.

I personally would say that the 400.000/year is a gross underestimation because that would be only roughly 1% of women and, if I recall correctly, in South Africa (much more civilized compared to Congolese standards) some double-digit percentage of women said (at a poll) that they were raped in the last year. Of course I’m not telling that you could estimate the rapes in the Congo with a South African poll. Interestingly many South African women also thought that rape is legal and I guess rape among blacks is seen quite differently (probably similar like a White sees loud music at night or software piracy — not really allowed, but not something that makes you a “bad person” forever either).

It’s tough to read, it really is. Rape isn’t taken as seriously as it needs to be taken, there is nothing those men and women could have done to deserve such treatment. No one deserves this. To know that this is happening, that rape is part of their plan, says a lot about the people, military, and ultimately the culture.

So the point, other than to get me dry heaving, is that all people, and all cultures are the same, except for those who have been systematically driven into a state of total dysfunction by the hideous White man?

Life in Kikwit, in fact, has been slowly deteriorating for years, prompted in part by the neglect of the main road linking it to the capital and in part by the diversion of resources into official pockets. But the lingering Belgian influence was a bulwark against collapse. In Kikwit, Belgian missionaries helped run the school system, and Belgian physicians and nurses operated the main medical center.

All this ended abruptly about 18 months ago when, in one of his periodic fits of pique against the Brussels Government, President Mobutu Sese Seko ordered all Belgian cooperative agencies, which included most physicians, teachers, bridge engineers and public health administrators, expelled from Zaire.

A few years I was listening to a talk a medical missionary was giving a lecture about her work in Africa (not in the Congo, but not too far away). She talked about the widespread belief in spirits and animism among the population, even those who professed the Christian or Muslim faiths. Illness and death were thought to result from evil spirits, who were usually incited by the unfortunate victim’s enemies. She said this wasn’t limited to the ignorant poor but was also found among the country’s ruling elite. She told of treating one elderly man who died of an infection. The son thanked her for the care his father received and then questioned her closely about the old man’s final days. He then expressed the belief that his father’s demise had resulted from sorcery and went out to consult his favorite witch doctors to find out “who done it.” This man was a government minister who had studied in Europe and America and spoke three Western languages!

rdc75: Quite right, there are no statistics, just wild guesses. The various witnesses can’t even agree on whether the war has been going on for 3, 4, 6 or 10 years. The reason is because war is normal.

And the feminist-inspired cliche that rape is a weapon of war is backwards. War is a means to rape.

As for this:

No one can say why. The answer is almost too awful to consider, and impossible to understand.

Nonsense. They do it for the same reason a scorpion stings a frog. It’s their nature. The same nature that they reveal everywhere in the world where they are not strictly controlled. Remember Channon Christian and Christopher Newsome.

Fascinating article. In my long years studying the history of Europe, I have never come across such bestial, subhuman behavior as that described for Congo. Maybe the Red Army’s entry into Germany at the end of WW2 comes close, but even the supposedly ‘barbaric’ peoples of the Migration Era and the Early Medieval period are never described, even by their mortal enemies, as being uncontrollable savage rapists.

In one passage of Bishop Gregory of Tours “History of the Franks”, Gregory describes an attempted rape by a Frankish nobleman of a young maiden. During the assault, the girl manages to gain hold of the warrior’s saex (a sort of dagger/short sword similar to a Bowie knife) and stabs him to death. The lass then runs to the court with the nobleman’s angry kin in pursuit, and throws herself at the feet of the king. The king, a typical warlike and ruthless man of his times, immediately grants the girl a pardon. I’ll have to look it up, but I even recall that the king makes the deceased’s family pay the victim compensation.

The moral of the story is that even our remote ancestors were still us. There is something innately European about the king’s response that resonates with the Western man or woman of today. The African, in contrast, is not us. An African chieftain likely would have raped the girl himself, before killing her for slaying one of his warriors. Read up on Shaka Zulu — no king of the Saxons, Irish, Picts, Vikings, etc. was as cruel and capricious as that demonic character.

“Rape is employed as a weapon because it is effective,” Verveer said. “It destroys the fabric of society from within and does so more efficiently than do guns or bombs.”

Hahaha. What a heap of feminist crap. I’m sure that’s what’s going through these savage [blacks’] minds when they’re getting ready to shove their cocks into the warm holes of some six-year-olds: “Take that, societal fabric!”

Also, the females getting raped love it and can’t get enough. Do we call it rape when a male lion chases and subdues a female and forcibly mounts her? Of course not. So why would we consider it rape when these savages do the same?

[Unamused: I really don’t think they enjoy it, and I have nothing but sympathy for the victims of Congolese atrocities. I just don’t want to let them into white nations.]

I love these kinds of articles from you. They scream out “ATTACK!” and attacking is something we should do more of instead of just passively responding to news stories. I am sure there is a giant treasure trove of targets to attack out there.

Coming to a white community like yours, probably not quite as violent and ugly, but rape regardless. Only difference is, it’ll be our white wives, daughters, granddaughters, nieces, grandmothers and friends.

Hell, I wouldn’t be suprised to see them try to mount some of the spineless white males in this country and truthfully, some of the feminized white males in this country deserve it. Man up, white men, enough is enough. In the words of Sergeant Major Basil Plumley (Sam Elliot) in the movie “We Were Soldiers”: “Gentlemen, prepare to defend yourselves.”

In this new study in Intelligence, Add Health Study data is used to compare the average level of dopamine-related alleles among students of 36 different middle and high schools. This measure is strongly associated with lower mean IQs (Beta = -.47). The relationship is weakened substantially (to Beta = -.35) when the percent of the school that is black is added as a control in the OLS regression model.

What’s the interpretation of this in plain English? It is this: Some schools have a higher percent of students with genes associated with a low IQ. These schools tend to have a low average IQ. So one important cause of low-IQ schools is having more kids with the bad genes. What the percent black predictor tells us is that: 1) schools with more blacks tend to have more students with the at-risk genes; 2) schools with a higher percent of blacks have lower intelligence levels; and 3) evidently an important reason why some schools are smarter than others is due to having fewer blacks — a group which has a higher prevalence of the bad genes.

This study contradicts the view that: 1) race is a social construction, and 2) the black-white gap in IQ has nothing to do with differences in genes.

German troops committed many of these same kinds of atrocities during Operation Barbarossa and their occupation of E. Europe. They were very targeted, though, and organized. Also, I think they mostly made sure their victims were dead and not merely walking about with horrible bleeding interiors and vaginas. The Russians also raped their way through Germany in 1945, but considering what Germany inflicted on their country in military and civilian casualties – 20 million dead, including but not primarily Jews – it’s hard to imagine another outcome with an Allied victory.

I feel for the victims – women, children, and men – of the Congolese horror, but I do not believe that this is a problem the West can solve without reimposing stringent colonial/apartheid rule, and that’s not going to happen.

Are any of the other African nations doing anything to limit or stop this horror, a la the NATO intervention in former Yugoslavia?

I should have been clearer. Rape was not policy, as mass murder was. There were just a lot of individual incidents of Nazis raping civilians of occupied territory. I’ve read dozens of war memoirs and historical accounts; young men given total power over a subdued civilian population will rape and otherwise maim and intimidate. The Nazis mostly kept their men on a leash, however, in the sense that they were expected to show up on time, do their jobs, and follow orders. Things were carried out according to plan which followed ideology very closely. They killed so many people, so efficiently because they were so orderly, so methodical, so efficient and because they so effectively utilized new technology. The thing is, Nazis bashing little Jewish babies against brick walls is savage behavior, even if it is more controlled than continuous rapine. Not being Jewish, I’d rather live under the Nazis than the Congolese, but what a choice.

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Normally i would scream “You are racist scum” But instead i will ask the question:For what purpose does this blog operate and what is your point?Ever heard of King Leopold of Belgium and his brutality towards the congolese?I dont condone terrorism and rape is an act of terrorism against a woman,s body and this is beyond disgraceful.European colonialism and imperialism has brought Africa to its current state but i will tell you this:Look at the economic growth of Nigeria and improved living conditions,human rights and rule of law and tell anyone that Africa is not in some ways improving.It will take the continent of Africa time to build the conditions it needs to truly compete on the global stage.remember this,Rome was not built in a day and neither will Africa either!

Well, Kalvin, normally I wouldn’t care what insults you scream — and make no mistake, “racist” is just another insult, like “jerkface” — and today is no exception.

The main purpose of this blog is in the tagline: “White rights, white racial consciousness, and positive white identity.” We also cover human biodiversity, such as race differences in intelligence; the link between race and crime; and black racism, specifically racially motivated black-on-white violence. Consult the Essentials page.

King Leopold II of Belgium ignored the conditions of the [white] Berlin Conference (which regulated European colonization of Africa) and used the Congo for his own profit. As a result, he was forced to cede control of the country to the [white] Belgian government. Under Belgian (i.e., white) rule, the Congo prospered. It has since degenerated into savagery, which appears to be the natural state of blacks worldwide. See, for example, Haiti, Liberia, Zimbabwe, South Africa, New Orleans, Detroit, and your local black ghetto.

European colonialism and imperialism improved every black nation it touched. (So where’s the gratitude?) That’s why 60 percent of Jamaicans want to bring back white rule. That’s why the first black nations to be “freed” are the worst off today. Just look at Haiti and Liberia.

Zimbabwe, the former Rhodesia, prospered under white rule. Then Mugabe kicked out the whites. Now he’s desperate to bring them back, because as it turns out, Zimbabwean blacks just aren’t capable of farming the land or otherwise creating wealth the way whites are. Might have something to do with that average IQ of 66… (Richard Lynn).

South Africa was much better off under apartheid; just ask black economist Walter Williams. Now they’ve got rid of the whites, and things are going to hell, just like they did in Zimbabwe. Hey, turns out people with an average IQ of 70 (African blacks) can’t run a country as well as people with an average IQ of 100 (whites worldwide).

Africa will never succeed the way the West has — the way whites have. Why? Because sub-Saharan Africans (blacks) are different from Europeans (whites) on a genetic level. That’s right, race is genetic. This is no longer up for debate; it is a simple scientific fact. And these genetic differences affect intelligence; to be precise, blacks are less intelligent than whites, on average. You may not like this fact, but that doesn’t make it any less true.

There are so many problems in this country. Of course most of these people are innocent victims whose lives are endangered if they were to remain. Undoubtedly any, many, or all would be entitled to enter the U.S. immediately under the ‘Instant Asylum for Negro Victims’ policy of the current leftist controlled Peoples Republik of Amerika. They should be protected and coddled both emotionally and financially as permanent ‘wards of the state.’